DiligenceSquared (YC F25) — AI-powered market due diligence for investment decisions
DiligenceSquared delivers AI-powered market due diligence for investment decisions - like the $500k McKinsey reports, but automated, auditable, and at a fraction of the cost. When Private Equity funds evaluate deals, they pay firms like McKinsey, BCG, and Bain $500K-$1M for market due diligence.
DiligenceSquared is a Y Combinator company in the Fall 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: AI-powered market due diligence for investment decisions. The founders listed are Frederik Hansen (Founder/CEO), Soren Biltoft-Knudsen (Founder/President) (Y Combinator directory entry, November 5, 2025).
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DiligenceSquared delivers AI-powered market due diligence for investment decisions - like the $500k McKinsey reports, but automated, auditable, and at a fraction of the cost.
When Private Equity funds evaluate deals, they pay firms like McKinsey, BCG, and Bain $500K-$1M for market due diligence. The process takes weeks, and the output is a static PowerPoint that's impossible to audit. A single large-cap PE fund can spend >$30M annually on this and the total market is $10B per year.
Our AI agents conduct expert interviews and synthesize insights with every claim linked to source transcripts. No black box, no "trust me" slides, and no 10x mark-up for human labor.
Frederik bought these reports as a Principal at Blackstone. Soren sold them as a Principal at BCG. Harshil is a repeat founder and former Software Engineer at Google. We've seen both sides and know what matters in due diligence - and now we automate it.
Our clients already include 8 leading private equity funds with over $2.4 trillion in combined AUM.
Frederik Hansen
Founder/CEO
Soren Biltoft-Knudsen
Founder/President
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